Rev. Father A. Maximiadis

9/11

The horrific attacks waged against the two peaceful, and vulnerable communities in the United States (U.S.) first occurred at the Oklahoma Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City on April 1995. The second occurred six years later in New York City; 11 September 2001 (usually abbreviated to “9/11”). These crimes – for whatever purpose – were outrageous, and horrific unconscionable acts at their worst. They were depraved, and iniquitous crimes by an hostes humani generis (an enemy of humanity), and unjustifiable, in any religiopolitical perspective.

The Oklahoma attack resulted in the loss of 168 lives including nineteen children, and eight federal law enforcement officers. The preliminary vital statistics ensuing from the New York attack constituted a total of 2,726 deaths (sec. the N.Y.C.D.H.M.H. qu., 16 August 2002). News of these attacks saturated the U.S’s print and broadcast media, thus attracting the global condemnation of the perpetrators, as well as sympathy for the victims and their relatives. The actual machinations, as to the whom, behind this attack, is in my opinion, yet to become public information. The truth must eventually emerge out of respect for the lives lost; and integrity to the historical record. In the Oklahoma jurisdiction, two former U.S. Army soldiers carried out the attack using a massive homemade explosive911 device. Those Charged were Timothy McVeigh, who was convicted, on 11 counts of ‘murder’, ‘conspiracy’, and ‘using a weapon of mass destruction’ (2 June 1997). He was executed on 11 June 2001. And Terry Nichols, also convicted, of ‘conspiracy’ and eight counts of ‘involuntary manslaughter’ (9 August 2004) was sentenced to life in prison.

The Oklahoma attack was similar, to New York, inasmuch as it targeted an innocent civilian population. It was a high-profile attack, by an internal group, against the U.S. federal government, and the crème de la crème of the corporate community. Perhaps motivated by ideologies of a political extreme right-wing militant patriot organization. This appeared to be a form of ‘urban terrorism’, id est., McVeigh and Nichols (et alii.), targeted a federal building in their particular region, perhaps attacking the social system, they believed, wasn’t accommodating their political and socio-economic expectations. Although they appeared unconnected with any major political group, they held views, to whatever extent, characteristic of the broad Patriot movement, perhaps with trepidation regarding left-centrists gaining power in Washington.

“We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend”.

Margaret Thatcher, ‘The Times’, 16 July, 1983.

Terroristic activities, could very probably culminate in an antagonistic outcome, by means of a government introducing draconic repressive measures, that could impact on the many. A classic example of this, was on the 27 February, 1933 whenthe 24-year old naked, Dutch insurrectionist (Marinus van der Lubbe), who was 70% visually impaired at his left  eye, set alight the 39-year old Reichstagsgebäude. The ‘Reichstag building’ in Berlin had been the seat of the German Empire (1871-1918), and the Weimar Republic (1919-33). The building was completely destroyed. This event provided the newly formed Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterparte ‘National Socialist German Workers Party’ q.e. the ‘Nazi party’. the opportunity to introduce totalitarian decrees that would foreshadow the worst crimes in history. Under the Nazi controlled judiciary, particularly subsequent to the Enabling Act (Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich) introduced on 23 March, 1933, Lubbe was declared guilty, and sentensed to death. He was guillotined (Fallbeil “falling axe”) 10 January, 1934. On the 6 December, 2007 the Generalbundesanwältin (Attorney General of Germany) posthumously pardoned him.

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